Hayao Miyazaki 宫崎骏个生平英文介绍.ppt

Hayao Miyazaki Chris Wang Ella Liang Abnor zhang 1968~2014 22 anime movies 5 retirement announcement Forever End Fairy Tale About Hayao Miyazaki Hayao Miyazaki Born January 5, 1941 (age 73)Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan Occupation Film director, animator, screenwriter, manga artist Years active 1963–2014 (as a director) Spouse(s) Akemi Ōta (m. 1965) Children Gorō MiyazakiKeisuke Miyazaki his first feature film, Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro, released in 1979。After the success of his next film, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984), he co-founded Studio Ghibli, where he continued to produce many feature films. While Miyazakis films have long enjoyed both commercial and critical success in Japan, he remained largely unknown to the West until Miramax Films released Princess Mononoke (1997). Princess Mononoke was the highest-grossing film in Japan until it was eclipsed by another 1997 film, Titanic, and the first animated film to win Picture of the Year at the Japanese Academy Awards. Miyazakis next film, Spirited Away (2001), topped Titanics sales at the Japanese box office, won Picture of the Year at the Japanese Academy Awards, and was the first anime film to win an American Academy Award. Miyazakis films often contain recurrent themes, like humanitys relationship with nature and technology, pro-feminism, and the difficulty of maintaining a pacifist ethic. The protagonists of his films are often strong, independent girls or young women 。While two of his films, The Castle of Cagliostro and Castle in the Sky, involve traditional villains, his other films like Nausicaä and Princess Mononoke present morally ambiguous antagonists with redeeming qualities. He co-wrote films The Secret World of Arrietty, released in July 2010 in Japan and February 2012 in the United States; and From Up on Poppy Hill release in July 2011 in Japan and March 2013 in the United States. Miyazakis newest film The Wind Rises was released on July 20, 2013 and is planned for an international